My electrical engineering experience stretches way back to last week Sunday when I happened to find a Akai M8 out on these beautiful amplifier-rich streets of San Francisco (HK, Marantz, now Akai found). Turns out, with the help of these forums and some elbow grease i have arrived at the following circuit physically, I have done all of the circuitry reduction noticeable in this schematic and am asking for advice for changes and assurance i haven't done something whacked.

The amp sounds good at volume but there is a audible buzz @ 0-gain using the only headphones i have (Fostex orthodynamics, these are high-impedance drivers), and I intend to recap the amps with the following;

In my case the open loop response is not flat and requires Negative feedback from the secondary. In the case of pentode connected it sounds much better with the feedback connection. I tested different values for the pentode feedback and a resistor between 50k and 60k worked best.

Definitely replace the caps, the non oil caps were bad and affected the bias of the second half of the 12ad7.

I did not try with headphones on mine, but with speakers it is silent. I only tested with the built in speakers and vintage alnico 4 inch drivers i had on the bench at the time.

I have been recommended to to increase the pi filter capacitors to 40uF, the cathode coupling capacitors to .1uF and the cathode bypass capacitors to 100uF. These should decrease ripple, and increase bass responce, respectively.

Im also very interested to know if i will need some sort of input coupling capacitor, or will it be ok with the resistor-only input currently on here?

Well, I'm doing my best to get acquainted with tube amps but try as i might I have not found the right resource to solve this puzzle. I have been able to model the circuit in LTSpice and am getting some very disturbing output. First off, the power supply output (on this circuit only, with others it tests great) the output appears as a sawtooth wave with a delta of 5-6 volts. There is something garbaging up the works here that i cannot see.

Well I've spent some time reading the forums and various sources of wisdom and have arrived at this final circuit which I expect to perform very well. Again, if anyone has any suggestions for alteration I'd love to hear your advice.

The power caps will be GENTEQ GEM III motor runs.
Cathode bypass caps will be Kemet T262 solid tantalums.
Coupling caps will be Russian teflons.
Resistors will be RCD wirewounds.
I plan to invest in two Jensen 4:1 step-down input transformers so I may use a variety of sources. (My DAC outputs 2.1VRMS)
I also plan to invest in a EMI filtering power plug, a Delta 06EK3.